Door attachment.



No. 758,942. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904. W. M. TAYLOR & W. HOLLE.

DOOR ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED rm. 19, 1904.

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ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, OF IVESTON, AND \VALTER HOLLE, OF ST. CLARA, IV ESTVIRGINIA.

DOOR ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,942, dated May 3,1904. Application filed February 19, 1904. Serial No. 194,318. \Nomodel.)

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Be it known that we, IVILLIAM M. TAYLOR, of \Veston, county of Lewis,and \VALTEE Home, of St. Clara, county of Doddridge,

State of \Vest Virginia, citizens of the United States, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Door Attachments; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention,

IO such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

Our invention relates to door attachments; and it consists of certainnovel features of combination and construction of parts, the

I5 preferred form whereof will be hereinafter clearly set forth, andpointed out in the claim.

The prime object of our invention, among others, is to provide a doorattachment which while primarily designed for the purpose of adoor-check in holding the door in an adjusted position either open orpartially open will also be found desirable and useful for a variety ofother purposes, as will be hereinafter clearly set forth.

A further object of our invention is to provide a door attachment of thecharacter specilied which will also serve the purpose of holding a doorin a proper position ready to have the hinges attached thereto.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter made clearly apparent,reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which are made a partof this application, and in which* Figure I shows a perspective view ofa door with our invention applied to use thereon and disposed in alocked position, so as to hold the door partially open. Fig. 2 is anelevation of our door-check attachment disposed in a locked 4 position.Fig. 3 is a similar view showing our attachment disposed in an unlockedposition, while Fig. 4: is a sectional view of Fig.

2, taken on line 4 A.

The various details and cooperating accessories of our invention willfor convenience be designated by numerals, the same numeral applying toa corresponding part throughout the several views,and, referring to thenumerals on the drawings, 1 indicates a door of the usual or anypreferred construction which, as will be 5 seen by reference to thedrawings, is in a partially-open position. To one side of the door, nearthe lower free edge thereof, we secure in any preferred way the bodyportion or platesection 2 of our attachment, which 55 may be made anydesired thickness and of any preferred material and is preferablyprovided at its lower end with the angular extension or lip 3, designedto fit under the lower edge of the door.

Upon the outer side of the plate or body portion 2 we attach orintegrally form therewith the brackets e and 5, provided with suitableopenings in which is adapted to longitudinally move the locking-bolt 6,which may 5 be formed in any preferred way and is preferably provided atits lower end with the enlarged terminal or foot 7, adapted to beardirectly upon the floor, or a covering of some cushioning substance, asrubber or the like, 7 may be attached to the lower face thereof, saidcushioning substance being indicated by the numeral 8 in the drawings.It will be understood that in some instances the lower face of the footmay be provided with a frictional point or points designed to take intothe floor.

It will be understood that the body portion or plateZ is provided with aplurality of suitably-located apertures, as indicated by the numeral 9,through which anchoring-screws 8O 10 of suitable character may beentered into the door, thereby reliably locking the plate in an adjustedposition upon the door.

If deemed desirable, the inner face of the plate 2 may be covered withfelt or other sub- 8 5 stance which will prevent the door from becomingmarred in cases where the attachment is not left permanently in positionthereon.

From the foregoing description it is obvious that when-the bolt 6 isforced downward 9 the foot-section thereof will be pressed tightlyagainst acontiguous part of the floo r,and thereby hold the door in anyposition in which it has been adjusted, and in order to providereliably-efiicient means for controlling the position of thelocking-bolt 6 we call attention to our cam-controller, consisting ofthe main or body section 11, having a controlling-handle 12, a suitableeccentrically-disposed aperture being formed in the body portion 11 toreceive the rivet or bolt 13.

It will be observed that the body portion 11 is provided upon its outeredge with a raised rib or outwardly-directed flange 14:, and we utilizethis rib or flange to raise and lower the locking-bolt 6, inasmuch as byreference to Fig. A of the drawings it will be observed that said flange14 is designed to fit within a recess 15, formed in the inner edge ofsaid bolt near the extreme upper end thereof, and it therefore followsthat by properly operating the controlling-handle 12 the bolt 6 may becaused to raise or lower at the will of the operator, and thus bedisposed in a locked or an unlocked position. It will be observed thatby reason of the eccentrically-located aperture for the rivet 13 theflange 1A is quite near said rivet at one point and farther removed uponthe opposite side of the body-section 11, and the relative distance ofthe flange from the pivot-point determines the scope of the movement ofthe locking-bolt 6.

In Fig. 2 the controlling-handle has been thrown outward the same asillustrated in Fig. 1, and the result is that the bolt 6 has been forceddownward in engagement with the floor,

' thereby securely holding the door in an adjust ed position, eitherentirely open or partially open, as desired.

Our attachment will also be found useful as a door-jack for holding adoor lifted to the proper height readyv for the carpenter to attach thehinges thereto, thus rendering it unnecessary for the door to be wedgedinto the desired position, as is commonly done. Our attachment willtherefore be valuable and useful as a carpenters tool, and to preventthe door from slipping we prefer to provide an upwardly-directed pointor points for the angular extension 3, said points being indicated bythe numeral 15 in Fig. at, and are designed to take into the lower edgeof the door and prevent it from casually slipping off.

In some instances the periphery of the body portion 14 may be slightlycorrugated, as indicated by the numeral 16 in Fig. 3, said corrugationsextending throughout the entire peripheryor only partially, as shown,whereby said body portion will be prevented from casually slipping outof an adjusted position.

It will thus be seen that we have provided a reliably-efficient form ofattachment for doors and that the parts thereof may be very cheaply andexpeditiously manufactured and each assembled in its respectiveoperative position, and that we have dispensed with the necessity ofemploying an unnecessary number of partsas, for instance, a springcommonly relied upon to hold the bolt 6 normally upward.

WVhile we have described the preferred combination and construction ofparts deemed necessary in carrying out our invention, we wish tocomprehend in this application all such substantial equivalents andsubstitutes as may be'considered as falling fairly within the scope ofour invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described door attachment, comprising a body portion orplate-section 2 having an angular extension 3 and frictional pointsthereon; suitable brackets land 5 upon the outer side of said plate; abolt passing.

through apertures in said brackets and having its lower end providedwith means to frictionally engage the floor and a cam-controllercomprising the body-section 11 having a flange l4 fitting a recess inthe upper end of the bolt, said cam-body also having acontrolling-handle whereby the bolt may be moved upward and downward asdesired, all substan tially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR. WALTER HOLLE.

I/Vitnesses:

DAVID SNYDER, J. G. BUNTING.

